I Club
1.1 Чтение, Письмо, Перевод, Интернет-Поиск 410каб `22мин
1. Read aloud. Mind your intonation.
2. Complete the sentences by quoting the text.
3. The teacher dictates the text. Put it down.
Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta, Georgia, in an Irish-Catholic family. When Margaret was a child, she loved to make up stories and wrote more than 100 adventure books.
In 1918, Mitchell joined Smith College in Massachusetts. Four months later, her mother died and Mitchell returned to Atlanta, where she met Berrien Kinnard Upshaw. They married in 1922, but four months later Upshaw left for the Midwest and didn’t come back.
After that, Mitchell got a job in the ‘Atlanta Journal’ Sunday magazine, where she wrote more than 200 articles. She got married a second time, wedding John Robert Marsh in 1925, but her journalist career ended quickly because of the broken leg. While Margaret was ill, she began writing Gone With the Wind, a romantic novel about the history of the South and the tragedy of the war.
Gone With the Wind was published in 1936, had huge success and got the Pulitzer award in 1937. Mitchell became famous, and the film based on her novel came out just three years later and became a classic, too. It won eight Oscars and 2 special Oscars.
During World War II, Mitchell had no time to write, because she worked for the American Red Cross. And on August 11, 1949, she was struck by a car while crossing a street and died five days later. Gone With the Wind was her only novel, which had a great effect on American literature.
